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Originally Posted by Barça
Truth? Naaah, just plain and simple presumption.
Lets not forget, she can be interned at a psychiatric institution for up to 40 years, and if she wasnt mad, well, i'd rather spend 40 years in the pen than in the loony asylum
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Yeah, but in the pen she would have to sit through the whole time sentence, while in the loony bin she can get out as soon as a panel of doctors find she is "cured". If she wasn´t insane at all going in, she has a very good chance of coming out after a couple of years or so. Wich begs the question:
Should she ever be allowed outside, after killing 2 and crippling 1 children?
Can such a person be cured?
How well can she be "cured" of listening to the voice of "God"? You think a heavy dose of Vallium and Prozac will cure her? I think not.
@Barça:
Unfortunally our current understanding of the human mind doesn´t allow for a 100% accurate diagnosis of anyone´s mental desieses. It happens often a perfectlly sane person acting loony to escape deathrow. And we can´t do a damn thing about it.
But this also brings up several other questions:
Does a person who kills his/her own children can ever be considered mentally sane?
Does a man who kills several persons? If so, shouldn´t we abolish deathrow alltogether, and send all these serial killers to mental institutions for treatment? Where do we draw the line? Wich killers do we execute or jail for life, and wich killers do we treat? How do we choose? Do we choose like Hypedave mentioned, by race?
And most of all, who will trust such a person, even after she is found cured? Who takes responsability if she isn´t cured afterall, and kills again? Can she have kids again?
If she is "insane", why haven´t people like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, or the infamous "sniper" been sent to some mental institution? Weren´t they just as sick as this woman?
We cannot have two measures of justice, and dispense it as we see fit. Justice is blind, to race, to social status, to religion. Or so it should be...
But it never is. Not really.
